...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.